"Abarca"

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When a distress call might be a lone survivor or a maybe pirate trap, a hardened UPA Spec Ops captain must hunt down the missing crew through bug-infested space. Space is full of lost things: stray cargo, broken hull plating, the occasional moral compass. When a jittery sixteen‑year‑old shows up on Abarca's coms and a small freighter limps toward Sigma Station, Renaud and his tough SpecOps crew end up babysitting a family-sized disaster. Maricella is a survivor, quick-witted and well-trained by her merchant family. But she’s also a kid whose family was stolen by pirates. Renaud’s crew may be short on patience and long on profanity, but they know how to bring people home. Caught between the biomechanical bugs that plague settled space and pirate skiffs that prey on the unwary, Abarca will risk it all to bring home Maricella's family. Funny, brutal, and full of bite-sized heroism, this is a story about battered crews, dicey poker games, and the small acts that turn a ragtag patrol into a family.